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Prosodic evidence for incipient VO order in Old English
Oleh:
Taylor, Ann E.
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Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
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English Language and Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2005 - terbaru) vol. 9 no. 1 (May 2005)
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page 139-156.
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vol9.1;139-156.pdf
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In this article I investigate the prosodic structure of verb–object sequences in three Old English metrical texts: Beowulf , Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, and The Metres of Boethius. I show that while OV sequences are rarely separated by a line break in any of the texts, the prosodic structure of VO sequences is different in each text, with a high rate of separation of the verb and object in Beowulf , followed by the Metres with less separation, and finally the Lives of Saints with less again. I relate these facts to the ongoing change in headedness in the VP that has been claimed to begin in the Old English period. I take a separated verb–object sequence to indicate a postposed object, and thus the fall in the frequency of separation across the texts indicates a fall in the proportion of VO sequences that are derived by postposition, with a concomitant increase in base-generated VO order.c
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